July 2003 - Posts
RSS, Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication, whatever you call it, is the easiest way you can make your news and/or articles available to a much wider audience, and only with a few lines of code using
RSSMaster, a free .NET class library.
You should get into this tutorial.
By accident I came across the NiftyPortal webpart while searching for webparts..
NiftyPortal.com is a private enterprise by Teun Duynstee. Teun is the (co-)author of several books on technical and Internet related subjects with WROX publishers (who tragically went bankrupt recently). He wrote the code for NiftyPortal to fill his own need for a personal newsroom. Coded in C#.
You can follow NiftyPortal.com development through the weblog
Cool feature I found in the new beta of Pivot (PHP and XML) blogtool.
Bob the guy who is scripting this tool for quite some time now added a way to send email to the blog (by regular email or by your handphone) and you can in that way post text and pics in the blog. Check it out and send mail to boblog@geenzorg.org and check the message on http://www.mijnkopthee.nl/moblog/
(spot me and my wife there :-) )
This is one I will work on too in my own tool. Just love it.
It is fun using it, and I'm still thinking about what I want with it but I see some bugs I guess.
- I have two comments on one message but I see Comments(0)
- I want to be able to edit my layout template or css or whatever is used
Maybe I come up with more :-)
Can we centralize all this ?
The last year I have been busy scripting PHP applications for the web and also created a Blog for myself and friends and I was wondering if there were already some (open source) web logs available on the web.
One I found out about, was ASPNetBlogs ofcourse (and that is the one used here also) but my first impression was like I got the ASPNet Community Starterkit in front of me. Same admin interface.
I also fear that this source here is not available for customization, 'cause I guess many community members would be willing to discuss about features.
Another one I found (and that one is en an early stage), is called BlogX which you can find on www.simplegeek.com , customizable and with a xml database.
If there are more projects like that I would be gratefull if you let me know.
The browser detection code in ASP.NET detects recent versions of Netscape as being down-level browsers, so the controls will render HTML 3.2 with all the &%* inline stuff like tags etc.
<browserCaps>
<result type="System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities, System.Web,
Version=1.0.3102.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
<use var="HTTP_USER_AGENT" />
TagWriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
</browserCaps>
That forces ASP.NET to render HTML 4.0 all the time, regardless of the browser. This can be the best choice but not always. You could write a browsercaps section which detects only Netscape 6.x and/or 7 or Mozilla 1.* and tell it just to use HTML 4.*.